Economic Viability Analysis for an OTEC Power Plant at San Andrés Island

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This paper presents the economic feasibility analysis of a 2 MW Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) power plant in the open cycle. The plant can supply 6.35% of the average annual consumption of the electricity demand located at San Andrés Island (Colombia). On the one hand, the work presents the selection of the place to locate an offshore facility considering the technical viability while, on the other hand, the economic viability analysis is performed. The latter considers two scenarios: one without desalinated water production and another one with desalinated water. In this way, it is intended to first determine its construction’s technical requirements to analyse its economic performance. This approach allows us to have a general idea of the implementation costs and the benefits obtained with this type of plant, for the particular case of San Andrés, an island in the Colombian Caribbean with sustained stress on electricity production and freshwater generation. The results obtained show that the technology is viable and that the investment can be recovered in an adequate time horizon.

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Herrera, J., Sierra, S., Hernández-Hamón, H., Ardila, N., Franco-Herrera, A., & Ibeas, A. (2022). Economic Viability Analysis for an OTEC Power Plant at San Andrés Island. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 10(6). https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10060713

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